Video: Creating a slideshow

With this movie I would like to show you how to generate a PDF slide show that you can then share with your friends and your family. I'm currently in the Adobe Bridge application and I'm viewing all of the images in our catalog images folder here in the Content panel. I would like to filter down what we're displaying in the Content panel using the Filter panel over here to the lower left. Notice where we have this Rating section, I'm going to click on the five start rating. To display these nine images that I have already applied a rating to.

In Photoshop Elements 6 for Mac Essential Training, Ted LoCascio teaches casual photographers how to organize, edit, and share their digital image libraries using this powerful software package from Adobe. He tours the included Adobe Bridge application, used for importing and organizing photographs, and explores every feature of Elements itself. He demonstrates how to navigate the Elements workspace, which is used to correct and improve images, combine them into projects, and produce slideshows, photo books, web galleries, and more. Ted also explains how to get the most out of each editing mode, and shares tips for correcting, retouching, and sharpening photographs. Example files accompany the course.

Creating a slideshow

With this movie I would like to show you how to generate a PDF slide show thatyou can then share with your friends and your family. I'm currently in theAdobe Bridge application and I'm viewing all of the images in our catalogimages folder here in the Content panel.I would like to filter down what we're displaying in the Content panel usingthe Filter panel over here to the lower left. Notice where we have this Ratingsection, I'm going to click on the five start rating. To display these nineimages that I have already applied a rating to.

So these are all images that I have picked out, given a five star rating to, inorder to indicate to myself that I want to create a PDF slide show based off ofwith these images. So now when I have these images displayed inside of theContent panel, what I can do is go under the Tools menu, choose PhotoshopElements and then choose PDF Slide Show.That brings us into the Elements' Editing workspace and opens up the PDF SlideShow dialog box. You can see the file names for all of those images are listedalready here in the Source Files portion of the dialog. So we don't have toclick Browse, we don't have to tell our system where these images are. We didit all using Bridge. We didn't even have to open up the images inside ofElements. As you can see in the Project bin, it's empty.

All right, so that's the beauty of using of Bridge and that script to accessthis Slide Show command. So now that we know we have all of our images alreadysetup and shows in to create the slide show from, we then need to choose ourOutput Options.We have two options: Multi-Page Documents or Presentation. Notice thatthe bottom of the dialog box has these presentation options and they are currentlygrayed out, that's because we have the Multi-Page Document option selected uphere. What that means is when you create the PDF slide show, whoever is viewingit is going to have to manually change the pages, whereas if you choose thePresentation option, the pages will advance by themselves using the timesignature that you choose here, it's defaulting to 5 Seconds. I'm actuallygoing to use the Presentation option and I'm going to make that a littleshorter, 3 Seconds. Advance Every 3 Seconds.

You can also choose continuously loop the slide show. I'm going to turn that onas well and then you can choose your Transition options if you click on thedown facing arrow, we have all of these different options in here. I'm going touse the traditional, Fade option. Okay that's the common one and I actuallylike that a lot. So we will choose Fade.In this section up here, we can choose our Background. If we choose White, whenyou display the slide show in a PDF reader like Adobe Reader, it's going toplace a white background around the image and then surround your whitebackground will likely be black. So in that instance I would rather just choose Black so that we will see black from the edge of the image all the way aroundthe screen. That actually I think looks nicer that way. So I'm going to chooseblack as my Background.

You can also choose to include information. Now the file has to already havethis information in it. Of course all of your files have a file name, so if youwere to choose that and click that option there and place a check there youalso have the option to display the extension for the file and then it willdisplay underneath the image. I don't see any reason to do that. If I'm goingshare the PDF slide show, I don't think they need to know the file name.If I have this information saved in the file things like Author and Copyright,you may want to display those. However, in these particular images I don'tbelieve I have saved Author and Copyright information. So I'm not going to turnthat on. You can also turn on EXIF Info. This is information about the imageand how it was taken. The stuff that was recorded by your camera. We don't needto turn that on and then of course Annotations and these are the other thingsthat could be possibly be saved within the metadata of the file. You can chooseto display that and if you do, you can choose the Font Size. Since I'm going tochoose not to display any of those, I don't need to worry about the Font Size.

So now that I have chosen all of my Output Options and my Presentation options,I'm going to go ahead and just click Save. That's going to bring up a separatedialog box. It's the Save dialog box. It's going to ask us where we want tosave this and I'm just going to save it to my Desktop. I'm going to name theslide show, Enzo slideshow. Something like that. We can chose to Hide theextension if we like by clicking that option there and then click Save, that'sgoing to bring up a third dialog box. This one is the Save Adobe PDF dialog box.

Up here at the top, you can choose an Adobe PDF Preset. It's setting to thedefault High Quality option. I would like to actually choose the Smallest FileSize option because I know that I'm probably going to want to email this orpost it on the web somewhere and in that instance you want the smallest filesize possible. Okay, because this one probably be too large to email. So we'regoing to choose Smallest File Size. For Compatibility, I would always keep thisat Acrobat 5 just in case you have people with older versions of Acrobat thatwant to view the file.

For Standard I will just chose None. We don't need to worry about this rightnow. We also have these different panels you can scroll through here, if youdecide you want to change any of these options. I wouldn't recommend that youdo, these are rather advanced. I would stick with the settings that are in the Preset. Just know that if you want to email this you could choose either smallest filesize or PDF/X1 would also be small, either one. So now that we know that we canalso turn on one other option that I do think we actually should turn on andthat is View PDF After Saving. We turn that on, we should be able to view thisin Acrobat Reader, as long as we have Acrobat installed on your machine, itshould automatically launch and display the PDF slide show. We will see if that works.

Click Save PDF. That was the last dialog box. It's going to go through andcreate the slide show and here is Acrobat Reader. Okay, it's giving us the FullScreen warning. Saying, "This document is trying to put Acrobat in full screen mode."That's because we saved this in a presentation. Okay, and presentationsare done in Full Screen mode. So yes, we do want it to do this and I'm going tosay "Remember my choice for this document." So that we don't have to see thisevery time. Acrobat tries to launch a presentation. We will click Yes, and nowwe're viewing our slide show.

Okay, remember we have got 3 second transitions, there is the Fade and it'sgoing to go through and show every image in the slide show. It's also going tokeep on playing because we turn on the loop feature. So once it reaches thelast slide, which would be the ninth slide, it will go background and showslide 1 again.So this is a great way to select images that you think are some of your bestimages in your collection, rate them in Bridge and then right from Bridge gostraight to the PDF Slide Show command. That way they will already be setup inthe dialog box, you just need to choose your Output Options and save your PDF slide show.

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